He who disciplines the nations, won’t he punish? He who teaches man knows.
Parallel translations
- KJV He that chastiseth the heathen, shall not he correct? he that teacheth man knowledge, shall not he know?
- BSB He who admonishes the nations, does He not discipline? He who teaches man, does He lack knowledge?
- NKJV He who instructs the nations, shall He not correct, He who teaches man knowledge?
- NASB He who disciplines the nations, will He not rebuke, He who teaches mankind knowledge?
- NLT He punishes the nations—won’t he also punish you? He knows everything—doesn’t he also know what you are doing?
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Cross-references & the web
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- Job 35:11who teaches us more than the animals of the earth, and makes us wiser than the birds of the sky?’
- Isa 28:26For his God instructs him in right judgment, and teaches him.
- Jer 10:25Pour out your wrath on the nations that don’t know you, and on the families that don’t call on your name: for they have devoured Jacob. Yes, they have devoured him and consumed him, and have laid waste his habitation.
- Ps 44:2You drove out the nations with your hand, but you planted them. You afflicted the peoples, but you spread them abroad.
- Isa 37:36Yahweh’s angel went out and struck one hundred and eighty-five thousand men in the camp of the Assyrians. When men arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies.
- Isa 10:5–6Alas Assyrian, the rod of my anger, the staff in whose hand is my indignation!
- Isa 54:13All your children will be taught by Yahweh; and your children’s peace will be great.
- Ezek 39:21I will set my glory among the nations; and all the nations shall see my judgment that I have executed, and my hand that I have laid on them.
- Amos 3:2“I have only chosen you of all the families of the earth. Therefore I will punish you for all of your sins.”
- Hab 3:12You marched through the land in wrath. You threshed the nations in anger.
- Hab 1:12Aren’t you from everlasting, Yahweh my God, my Holy One? We will not die. Yahweh, you have appointed him for judgment. You, Rock, have established him to punish.
- Ps 135:8–12Who struck the firstborn of Egypt, both of man and animal;
- Ps 10:16Yahweh is King forever and ever! The nations will perish out of his land.
- Ps 119:66Teach me good judgment and knowledge, for I believe in your commandments.
- Ps 25:8–9Good and upright is Yahweh, therefore he will instruct sinners in the way.
- Ps 9:5You have rebuked the nations. You have destroyed the wicked. You have blotted out their name forever and ever.
- John 6:45It is written in the prophets, ‘They will all be taught by God.’ Therefore everyone who hears from the Father, and has learned, comes to me.
- Prov 2:6For Yahweh gives wisdom. Out of his mouth comes knowledge and understanding.
- Isa 10:12Therefore it will happen that, when the Lord has performed his whole work on Mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the willful proud heart of the king of Assyria, and the insolence of his haughty looks.
- Isa 2:3Many peoples shall go and say, “Come, let’s go up to the mountain of Yahweh, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths.” For out of Zion the law shall go out, and Yahweh’s word from Jerusalem.
- Ps 149:7To execute vengeance on the nations, and punishments on the peoples;
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